PsyBorg
Wake up! Time to fly!
So two things happening right now. First I am not building a quad this year and have decided to try my hand at a guitar build. Not quite a kit build but certainly not a from scratch build either. I am kicking this thread off as a side project and to celebrate my 10,000th post annoying you lot. This will be done in stages as I can afford and gather parts just as if I were building one of my flying beasties so updates will be sporadic at best.
The plan is to base the guitar off a PRS (Paul Reed Smith) style guitar but make a few changes which may or may not work. I am not a fan or standard 3x3 tuner head stocks like a traditional guitar. I prefer the inline set ups so that will be the first deviation from a real PRS. I have decided to go with a left handed Hockey stick style neck used by Jackson guitars. Basically pointy end up.
I chose the body to be made with Mahogany with the PRS carved Maple top with an all maple neck with matching maple fretboard. The plan for the electronics will be either a set of EMG Glenn Tipton Vengean to honor one of my favorite players ever. That is depending on availability at the time I can afford them. If not the second choice is to try out Lace pick ups which are a very unique change up in how guitar pickups are made.
I want to coil split both the bridge and neck pick ups so I have ordered two 500k ohm push pull volume controls id I am able to acquire the GTV pickup set. If not I will go dual humbuckers with the Lace pick ups.
Still not sure what to do either color wise or carve wise to make it more unique. One of the Ideas I have kicking about is to round the edges of the top and bottom for the entire side of the body and wrap that in the same Tolex material I used to cover one of my guitar cases sort of like an inlay that wraps the whole guitar. I really thing the dark Tolex will really compliment the gorgeous blond maple on both the body and neck as well as contrast well with the Mahogany back. I want to shape the edges round like a seam for things like car upholstery do to make the Tolex appear to be sewn to the wood. May even go as far as to wrap that rounded edge using embroidery thread to add to the effect.
Now I know it sounds strange as the guitar will have a rock and roll look but a semi countryish style if I go with the Tolex. I DID mention unique right? Anyways those decisions will be made on the fly as I gather parts and form a final direction to take the build. I always have the option to go with a painted finish but after seeing the grain on the body that arrived a short while ago would be a sin to the guitar gods and a last ditch save the look effort should I mess it all up. Staining the grain in some unique colors is also an option on the table still both as an addition and an option to the Tolex wrap.
And here is a picture of the case I used the Tolex on that I am thinking to use as an edge wrap.
Here is the neck unboxing.
And here is the details of my fail. It starts out looking great..
The plan is to base the guitar off a PRS (Paul Reed Smith) style guitar but make a few changes which may or may not work. I am not a fan or standard 3x3 tuner head stocks like a traditional guitar. I prefer the inline set ups so that will be the first deviation from a real PRS. I have decided to go with a left handed Hockey stick style neck used by Jackson guitars. Basically pointy end up.
I chose the body to be made with Mahogany with the PRS carved Maple top with an all maple neck with matching maple fretboard. The plan for the electronics will be either a set of EMG Glenn Tipton Vengean to honor one of my favorite players ever. That is depending on availability at the time I can afford them. If not the second choice is to try out Lace pick ups which are a very unique change up in how guitar pickups are made.
I want to coil split both the bridge and neck pick ups so I have ordered two 500k ohm push pull volume controls id I am able to acquire the GTV pickup set. If not I will go dual humbuckers with the Lace pick ups.
Still not sure what to do either color wise or carve wise to make it more unique. One of the Ideas I have kicking about is to round the edges of the top and bottom for the entire side of the body and wrap that in the same Tolex material I used to cover one of my guitar cases sort of like an inlay that wraps the whole guitar. I really thing the dark Tolex will really compliment the gorgeous blond maple on both the body and neck as well as contrast well with the Mahogany back. I want to shape the edges round like a seam for things like car upholstery do to make the Tolex appear to be sewn to the wood. May even go as far as to wrap that rounded edge using embroidery thread to add to the effect.
Now I know it sounds strange as the guitar will have a rock and roll look but a semi countryish style if I go with the Tolex. I DID mention unique right? Anyways those decisions will be made on the fly as I gather parts and form a final direction to take the build. I always have the option to go with a painted finish but after seeing the grain on the body that arrived a short while ago would be a sin to the guitar gods and a last ditch save the look effort should I mess it all up. Staining the grain in some unique colors is also an option on the table still both as an addition and an option to the Tolex wrap.
And here is a picture of the case I used the Tolex on that I am thinking to use as an edge wrap.
Here is the neck unboxing.
And here is the details of my fail. It starts out looking great..
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